Fictions of Nuclear Disaster
By: David Dowling.
Edition: First edition
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
Published: January 7, 1987
Place of publication: Iowa City, Iowa, USA
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 239
Copyright date: 1985
Subjects: Science fiction -- History and criticism.; Nuclear warfare in literature.; Disasters in literature.
Description: Abstract from U.S. Department of Energy
Office of Scientific and Technical Information
https://www.osti.gov/biblio/5527594

This work is critical study of literary interpretations of the nuclear holocaust. The author examines more than 250 stories and novels dealing with the theme of nuclear power and its devastating potential implications. Addressing such topics as the scientist and Armageddon, the role of religion, future evolution and mutation, and the postnuclear society, the author assesses the response of Bradbury, Lessing, Malamud, Shute, Huxley, Vonnegut, Heinlein, and others to the threat of nuclear apocalypse, with in-depth analyses of Alter Miller's A canticle for Leibowitz and Russell Hoban's Riddley Walker.
Notes: Bibliography: p. 230-235.
Includes index.